eleibo, yea the Pelicans as a whole are super-weak on D, but so were the Bucks last year and Larry Sanders pulled down a 92D as the 12-13 blocks leader. I'm thinking Davis has to get close to an 80 rating pre-D update, but should be a lock for 1st Team ALL D, so may end up in the Sanders neighborhood.

Don't know if Blake Griffin been mentioned, but a solid season is coming..~28.9%use @ 53.2%efg w/70% from the stripe, shoots 24ppg. Has a reasonable tov & pf rate, and should go close to 80 def...def70+ anyway. He's starting to get beastly!!!

Posted by smokey57 on 4/3/2014 12:26:00 AM (view original):Don't know if Blake Griffin been mentioned, but a solid season is coming..~28.9%use @ 53.2%efg w/70% from the stripe, shoots 24ppg. Has a reasonable tov & pf rate, and should go close to 80 def...def70+ anyway. He's starting to get beastly!!!

I'd be surprised if his defense is above 60. The only way this season will be noticeably better than his others is if he remains a tier 2 usage player and is 99+% at SF.

Here's a question... Which LeBron would you take: 12-13, or 13-14 (assuming no significant stat changes, and MP around 2900 min again)? This year's LBJ is shooting better, but tov% is up, so are fouls, and his treb% and ast% will be lower. His defense might not reach the levels it did last year as well. So... which one would you take?

Posted by hoopsdude on 4/3/2014 8:26:00 PM (view original):Here's a question... Which LeBron would you take: 12-13, or 13-14 (assuming no significant stat changes, and MP around 2900 min again)? This year's LBJ is shooting better, but tov% is up, so are fouls, and his treb% and ast% will be lower. His defense might not reach the levels it did last year as well. So... which one would you take?

Posted by smokey57 on 4/3/2014 12:26:00 AM (view original):Don't know if Blake Griffin been mentioned, but a solid season is coming..~28.9%use @ 53.2%efg w/70% from the stripe, shoots 24ppg. Has a reasonable tov & pf rate, and should go close to 80 def...def70+ anyway. He's starting to get beastly!!!

I'd be surprised if his defense is above 60. The only way this season will be noticeably better than his others is if he remains a tier 2 usage player and is 99+% at SF.

With the season winding down and players stats pretty much set. Here are the notables IMO:

Kevin Durant- depends where his defense is but will you take him over Jordan in a draft league?
Kevin Love- similar eFG/TS than his 10-11 season with less rebounding but now a tier 2 scorer. Defense? we will see
Stephen Curry- Tier 2 scorer with a 56% eFG. Probably now a solid round 2 in a draft league
James Harden- Could be a later round pick if you need scoring. Extremely efficient scorer but defense will be a liability
DeAndre Jordan- Will join the low usage/high rebounding and defense players in the 2nd round
Paul George- Had a great start to the season but now is not draftable
Joakim Noah- Had a Tom Boerwinkle type season but eFG is just too low
Andre Drummond- Had a great season similar to DeAndre but with his fouls being a little high I would compare him to Buck Williams (better than). Late 2nd early 3rd round
Lebron- Another incredible season for him but 12-13 was better
Dwight Howard- The model of constantancy this year looks like many of his years prior
Goran Dragic- His defense is going to be horrible but if you need a scorer with assists in the 5th round he could fill the roll

Durant at 61 is not a great number. But the 8-pt season and career high efg and ast are still pretty awesome for a 2.
Thought love might get like a 45 def as I thought stats had him close to average but he is stuck at 30.

Anthony Davis 99% @ SF... Andre Drummond and DeAndre Jordan look amazing... CP3 and Dwight keep on putting up numbers... Kawhi Leonard has some good advanced stats, but minutes are low... and I was looking for 50-60 def for Lance Stephenson, but other than that he looks semi-usable. All around great season, and congrats to WIS for not keeping us waiting forever like they have in the past.